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AUTOGRAPHIO REGISTER.

.No. 526,003. Patented Sept. 11, 1894.

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WILLIAM ASSHETON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF TWVO- TI-IIRDS TODAVID STEWART AND CHARLES J. CARROLL, OF SAME PLACE.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,003, datedSeptember 1 1 1894.

Application filed May 24, 1894. Serial No. 512,252. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM ASSHETON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a manifolding autographic tablet for use instores to produce a plurality of copies of a salesmans check.

The object is to provide an improved autographic tablet which willproduce at one writing on a single strip of paper from asingle rollerthree copies of a sale check or ticket, one of which may be retained bythe salesman, another given to the cashier, and the third given to thecustomer or attached to the goods sold.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a longitudinal section of my improved autographic tablet.Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a crosssection onthe line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view of the triplicate blank. Fig. 5is a perspective diagram of the paper roll with a triplicate blank inposition as it is in the ma chine.

The improved autographic tablet comprises a platen or bed-block, A, ofwood or metal provided at each side at the rear end with an inclinedstandard, B, having an inclined slot, 0, with a lateral opening, 0. Twoguide rollers, e, f, and a reversing roller, g, extend across and arejournaled in the said two inclined standards. The platen or bed, A, hasat its opposite end, or front, a depression, Z, in which are tworollers, 2', j, one being a guide roller and the other a reversingroller. Over these rollers, e,f, g, and 2', j, the blank or strip ofpaper passes from the roll, D, which is on a shaft, D, whose ends fitand revolve within the inclined slot, 0, of each standard, B.

This machine is contrived to use a single roll of paper so as to yieldthree copies of any memorandum, bill, check, or ticket from one writing.Of course the roll may consist of a plain unprinted strip of paper, orit may I be printed to suit anyparticular business concern. In Figs. 4and 5 a printed paper is illustrated for the purpose of making theoperation clear. Each transaction noted on this tablet will result inproducing three copies on one continuous strip, as shown in Fig. 4,which has just been detached. Two of the copies, h, and, 77.3, are on aprinted form, and the other copy, 7L2, located between the two printedones, is on plain blank paper. This strip is folded twice on the twolines, k, W, in a manner that will be presently described, so as to makethree stretches or layers, h, 712, h See Fig. 5. A mark made in a blankspace on the printed copy, 71?, is thus sure to be reproduced in thecorresponding blank space on the printed copy, h, because the topstretch and bottom stretch of this paper strip on the tablet movein thesame direction and with the same speed. The strip of paper from theroll, D, is primarily threaded on the rollers, or arranged in positionon the platen, A, to form three stretches, h, 71. 71 for producing atone Writing three copies of the written matter. In thus threading thepaper strip from the roll, D, it is first passed under the guideroller,f, and along on top of the platen-bed, A, to the guide-roller, i, Thisconstitutes the first stretch, h; and over this first stretch is placeda strip of carbon paper, m, indicated in Figs. 1 and 3 by broken lines.Then the paper is passed down between the roller, 1, and the reversingroller, j, and then up and over roller, j, and back along the top of theplaten above the strip, m, of carbon under the reversing roller, g, toform the second stretch, h over which a strip of carbon paper, m isplaced as before; and, finally, the strip of paper is passed up and overthe reversing roller, g, then down under the guide roller, e, and againforward along the top of the platen to form the third stretch, h whichis above the second carbon strip, m and terminating at, n. It will beseen that by using two pieces of carbon, m,m and running the paper stripfrom the roller, D, forward, then back, and forward again, threestretches or layers of paper are formed above the platen, A, in positionfor being written upon, and consequently by the employment of only oneroller three manifold copies may be obtained. The carbon strips, m, mare wider than the I paper employed and their opposite ends are securedwithin longitudinal grooves, 0, at each side of the platen by means ofbars,p, pivoted at, g, which turn down into the grooves and press thecarbon paper therein and thus confine the carbon paper in such mannerthat while the two carbon papers cannot be pulled outby the shifting ofthe strip of paper, yet the carbon papers offer no hinderance to thefree shifting or movement of said paper strip.

To remove the pencil-written top-layer and the two carbon copies of thepaper strip from the platen, A, the terminal end, n, of the paper isgrasped by the hand of the operator and pulled forward across theplaten, A, in the direction indicated by the arrows in Figs. 1 and 2until the first, second and third stretches pass beyond the cutter-bar,0'. Simultaneously with this drawing out of the three written copiesfrom the tablet, the roll, D, will unwind to supply three freshstretches to the platen, A, in position to be written upon in the mannerheretofore described in the preliminary threading operation. Thecutter-bar, 1', is pivoted at the front end of the platen, A, and servesas the means by which the Written copies may be severed from the freshpaper. This is done by holding down the bar and pulling the papersldewise across the front edge of the cutter-bar, r. The three copies,see Fig. 4, are then separated on the lines, 71), 70

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In an antographie manifolding tablet,the combination of a bed or platen provided with standards carrying ashaft for a single roll of paper; two reversing rollers, g, 7', one ateach end of the platen over which one strip of paper from the same rollis passed to form three stretches above the platen; and a carbon paperbetween the first and second, and second and third stretches,respectively, substantially as described.

2. In an autographie manifolding tablet, the combination of a bed orplaten provided with standards having an inclined slot, 0; a singleshaft, D, mounted loose in said inclined slots to carry one roll ofpaper; a reversing roller at each end of the platen; suitableguiderollers; and a cutter bar, whereby a continuous strip of paper maybe drawn from the one roll and stretched forward, back and forward toform three stretches of paper above the platen with the extremity of thepaper strip resting under the cutter-bar.

3. In an autographic manifolding tablet, the combination of a platenprovided with standards carrying a shaft for a single 'roll of paper andhaving at two opposite sides a longitudinal groove; two reversingrollers, g j, one at each end of the platen over which one strip ofpaper from the same roll may be passed to form three stretches above theplaten; and two bars each pivoted at an opposite side of the platen toturn down into said groove and confine the carbon paper.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

' \VILLIAM ASSI-IE'ION. Witnesses:

CHARLES E. MANN, Jr., C. CALVERT HINES.

